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Box 5

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

"Florry," (Florence L. Page), Rome, Italy, to Helen Lathrop, Chicago, Illinois, 1919 January 5

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Identifier: id184596
Scope and Contents

News of Amy's[?] death. 11 pages. Autograph Letter Signed.

Dates: 1919 January 5

"Mother," (Florence L. Page), Rome, Italy, to Florence Lindsay, Boston, Mass., 1919 January 12, 1919 January 13

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Identifier: id184599
Scope and Contents

Discusses her husband's leaving for America; mentions visit to Royal estate; plans her return to America; explains Queen's acknowledgement of a gift for the poor. 26 pages. Autograph Letter Signed.

Dates: 1919 January 12, 1919 January 13

"Mother," (Florence L. Page), Rome, Italy, to Florence Lindsay, Boston, Mass., 1919 January 16, 1919 January 17

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Identifier: id184604
Scope and Contents

Hopes to arrange her husband's appointment to the Embassy; mentions Queen's gifts of antiques to Henry Field; talks about Henry's ignorance of American history; hopes to influence Minna to have him see his own country and continue education at Yale; copy of Preston Gibson's letter. 27 pages. Autograph Letter Signed.

Dates: 1919 January 16, 1919 January 17

"Mother," (Florence L. Page), Rome, Italy, to Florence Lindsay, Boston, Mass., 1919 January 22, 1919 January 23

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Identifier: id184606
Scope and Contents

Discusses her husband's plans to retire; mentions charitable activities; family news. 28 pages. Autograph Letter Signed.

Dates: 1919 January 22, 1919 January 23

"Mother," (Florence L. Page), Rome, Italy, to Florence Lindsay, Boston, Mass., forwarded to Cantonsville, Maryland, 1919 January 26-28

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Identifier: id184611
Scope and Contents

Describes Embassy party; discusses return of Italian prisoners. 24 pages. Autograph Letter Signed.

Dates: 1919 January 26-28

"Mother," (Florence L. Page), Rome, Italy, to Minna Burnaby, "Baggrave Hall," Leicestershire, England, 1919 February 5, 1919 February 7

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Identifier: id184616
Scope and Contents

Scope and Contents Mentions that her husband may resign suddenly; discusses interference from under-secretaries in Washington D.C.; describes visit of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt;s family; suggests sale of "Baggrave Hall" to offset debts; mades other recommendations to reduce Minna's expenses. 28 pages. Autograph Letter Signed.

Dates: 1919 February 5, 1919 February 7

Thomas Nelson Page, Rome, Italy, to Minna Burnaby, "Baggrave Hall," Leicester, England, 1919 February 10

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Identifier: id184618
Scope and Contents

Discusses Minna's tax problems; gives fatherly advice on living within one's income. 15 pages. Autograph Letter Signed.

Dates: 1919 February 10

Thomas Nelson Page, Rome, Italy, to Minna Burnaby, "Baggrave Hall," Leicester, England, 1919 February 11

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Identifier: id184622
Scope and Contents

Discusses Minna's expenses. 2 pages. Autograph Letter Signed.

Dates: 1919 February 11

"M[other]," (Florence L. Page), Taormina, Italy, to Minna Burnaby, "Baggrave Hall," Leicestershire, England, 1919 February 26

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Identifier: id184629
Scope and Contents

Describes scenery and trip to Taormina. Autograph Card Signed. 2 items.

Dates: 1919 February 26

"Mother," (Florence L. Page), Rome, Italy, to Florence Lindsay, Boston, Mass., 1919 March 10, 1919 March 11

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Identifier: id184641
Scope and Contents

Expresses her husband's anxiousness to resume his writing; keeps diary as basis for extended memoir; discusses international politics at the peace table; describes Embassy reception with Albert Spaulding; talks about the League of Nations and Senator Lodge. 28 pages. Autograph Letter Signed.

Dates: 1919 March 10, 1919 March 11

"Mother," (Florence L. Page), Rome, Italy, to Florence Lindsay, Boston, Mass., forwarded to Southboro, Massachusetts, 1919 March 26, 1919 March 27

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Identifier: id184677
Scope and Contents

Discusses post-war politics and the Peace Conference; family news. 24 pages. Autograph Letter Signed.

Dates: 1919 March 26, 1919 March 27

"Mother," (Florence L. Page), Rome, Italy, to Minna Burnaby, Paris, France, 1919 March 31

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Identifier: id184680
Scope and Contents

Expresses hopes to leave Rome by the end of May; anticipates their visit. 10 pages. Autograph Letter Signed.

Dates: 1919 March 31

Correspondence, 1919 January-March

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 3
Identifier: id184593
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The collection contains correspondence . Correspondence includes letters primarily from 1908-1919, from Nelson Page and his wife Florence Lathrop Field Page to her daughters Minna Field Gibson Burnaby, Florence Field Lindsay, Bryan Lathrop and Helen Aldis Lathrop. The letters concern social life in Washington, D.C., life in Rome during World War I, diplomacy under Woodrow Wilson, and the role of a diplomat's wife. There are forty letters, 1915-1916, from Algernon Edwin Burnaby to his wife...
Dates: 1919 January-March